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vinarius

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [wiːˈnaː.ri.ʊs][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [viˈnaː.ri.us][1]

Forms

vīnārius (feminine vīnāria, neuter vīnārium); first/second-declension adjective[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin vīnum (“wine”) + -ārius.[2][1] De Vaan traces vīnum to Proto-Italic *wīno- and Proto-Indo-European *ueih₁-(ō)n (“vine; wine”), cognate with Umbrian vinu (“wine”), Hittite u̯ii̯an- (“wine”) and Ancient Greek οἶνος (oînos, “wine”).[3]

Earliest recorded meaning

De Vaan and Köbler find it first in Plautus,[3][4] whose Miles gloriosus has someone accuse others of holding a Bacchic revel in the wine cellar.[2][5]

Semantic evolution

As an adjective it means used for making, storing or selling wine: Cato has a wine vat, Plautus a wine cellar, Cicero a wine vessel, and Pliny the Elder a wine skin.[5][2] The neuter is a vessel for serving wine, as in Plautus' Poenulus.[2] Of persons it means dealing in wine, and as a masculine noun a wine merchant, as in an inscription for a collector of payments in the wine trade.[2] Cato seems to use it of a fruit-bearing shoot left on a vine.[2] Ulpian, citing Pomponius, uses it of habitual drinkers, whom some held not to be covered by the edict on sales.[2] Niermeyer records a medieval sense, the monk in charge of the wine supply.[6]

Timeline

  • c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a wine cellar and of wine vessels.[2][4]
  • 234–149 BC – Cato of a wine vat and of vine shoots.[5][2]
  • 81–43 BC – Cicero of a wine vessel.[5]
  • before 223 AD – Ulpian of habitual drinkers.[2]

Meanings

Adjective

  1. Of or for wine; used in making, storing or selling wine.[2][5][1][7]
  2. (of persons) Dealing in wine.[2]

Noun

  1. A wine merchant, vintner.[2][1]
  2. (neuter) A vessel for serving wine.[2]
  3. An habitual drinker.[2]
  4. (Medieval Latin) The monk in charge of the wine supply.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
  3. ^ a b de Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages, Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7, Leiden; Boston: Brill
  4. ^ a b Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
  5. ^ a b c d e Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  6. ^ a b Niermeyer, J. F. (1976), Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden: Brill
  7. ^ Stelten, Leo F. (1995), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin, Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson